U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), hosted a West Virginia Farm Bill Priorities Roundtable Monday in Morgantown, with U.S. Sen. John Boozman (R-Ark), ranking member of the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee. Boozman is one of the primary authors of the upcoming Farm ...
CHARLESTON — Delegates Monday advanced a bill specifying the Legislature has the ability to bring legal actions against state government officials who make or attempt unauthorized changes in state election laws. Another element of House Bill 4205 would allow citizens to seek a court order against any state or local official who fails to abide by or to enforce a state election law or regulatory requirement. “The intent here is to give the Legislature standing in the courts and what we as a body set into law,” said Delegate Josh Holstein, R-Boone, the lead sponsor of the ...
MORGANTOWN — Here is a sampling of bills introduced Monday, Jan. 22. Local sponsors and co-sponsors are noted. SB 495 and 496, to clarify that race discrimination includes discrimination based on certain hair textures and styles. SB 496, Sen. Mike Caputo, D-Marion, sponsor. SB 497, ...
MORGANTOWN — The House of Delegates on Monday passed a couple elections bills unanimously with minimal discussion. The big debate of the day was about an amendment to a bill dealing with the supervision of nurse anesthetists. HB 4432 was on second reading. The primary objective of the ...
MORGANTOWN — Call it Green Bag’s gardening greenbacks. Or, maybe, seed money. Whatever it’s called, members of the Morgantown Monongalia Metropolitan Planning Organization’s Policy Board are hopeful an environmental requirement to fund community gardens ...
Gov. Jim Justice indicated flexibility if lawmakers choose a pay raise for educators at a higher price tag than he’s already advocated. “There’s plenty of wiggle room in mine,” Justice said during an administration briefing. “If we have dollars, these folks are hard-working. We need to attract more, whether it be our state employees, our teachers, our service personnel on and on and on.” Justice in his State of the State address called for average 5% pay raises for state employees at a cost to the state of $123 million. Justice said the pay raise is meant to cover ...
